Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology

About

The A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology (Ukrainian: Інститут фізіології імені О. О. Богомольця, romanized: Instytut fiziolohii imeni O. O. Bohomoltsia) is a scientific institution of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine dedicated to biomedical research in the fields of physiology, biophysics, pathophysiology, neuroscience. It is a leading research center in Ukraine for neuroscience, electrophysiology and cardiovascular diseases.

Predecessors of BIPH were the Institute of clinical physiology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR (established 9 May 1934) and the Institute of experimental biology and pathology of Ministry of Health of Ukrainian SSR (established 1930). Both institutions were led by Ukrainian and Soviet physiologist Alexander A. Bogomolets, who was also president of Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR.

BIPH became a world-famous center for cellular physiology under its long-standing director Platon Kostiuk who was in charge in 1966–2010. Kostiuk and his students were first to measure calcium currents through neuron soma, distinguish between low-voltage activated calcium channels and high-voltage ones, discover ATP-receptors and ASIC-mediated currents.

Since 1955 "Fiziologychnyi Zhurnal" (for Ukrainian "Physiological Journal") has been published. Its first editor was Ivan Pavlov 's student Georgiy Volbort. Abstracts of articles are present in PubMed and MEDLINE databases.

Since 2010 Begell House publisher started to publish "International Journal of Physiology and Pathophysiology" containing the best articles from "Fiziologychnyi Zhurnal".